Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1884 — Page 4

Tit Model Mi? Co.’s FULL BRASS BAND Will give their regular Summer Night’s Concert, at University Park, this evening, at 6:45 o’clock. Everybody invited to attend. MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW Sc SON. For Rotes of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884. rt=—-c We are confronted with the Democratic yarty, very hungry, and, as yon may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle; a party without any distinct national policy which it dares present to the country; a party which fell from power as a conspiracy against human rights, and now attempts to sneak back to power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils.— Geo. Wm. Ccktis, Jane 5, 1884. “Is there any good reason why Hendricks should be selected from forty-five millions of people to be the possible head of a Government which he did his-best to destroy?”— Geo. W. Curtis in 1878. “I killed Print Matthews. I told him not to vote, and he voted and I killed him. It was aot me that killed him—it was the party If I had not been a Democrat I would not have killed him. It was not me, but the Democratic party; and now if the party is a mind to throw me off, d—n such a party.— E. B. Wheeler of Hazlehurst, Miss, afterwards elected Marshal by the Democratic party. I have carefully observed the attitude and movements of the Democratic party for twenty years. Inmy jadgmentitlias learned nothing and forgotten nothing. So far as lean perceive, it is not only swayed by the same principles, hot, to a large extent, guided by the same men.— President Capbn, of Tuft’s College, Mass. Mr. Dlaine has what may be called the American instinct.— Geo. Wm. Curtis, in Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 5.1881. From the way things are going, possibly it was Thomas A. Hendricks who was Indiana's “great wax Governor.” It is a thousand pities Abraham Lincoln did not put down in wilting his thanks to Thomas A. Hendricks for his great efforts in assisting in crushing the rebellion. The New York Clearing-house Association has passed a resolution that no member shall pay interest or allow any compensation for deposits after Jan. 1, 1885. This is wise and safe action.

Independent Republican papers, brevet Democratic pro tem., are taking pains to show that Charles Sumner was a bolter against Grant in 1872. But the people went right on and elected Grant by an overwhelming majority, just as they are going to elect Blaine and Logan this time. Henry Ward Beecher cards the New York Tribune to the effect that he is "unwilling to have it supposed that I could speak of Mr. Blaine or Mr. Logan as I am represented to have done.” No apology is necessary, Mr. Beecher. Blaine and Logan don't care one way or the other. An eastern independent journal has exclusive information to the effect that there is much alarm among Indiana Republican circles overy the discovery of “many independents” who cannot support Blaine. This an error. There is one anti-Blaine man in the State, but he is not taking much interest in politics at present. A WITTY Irishman, arrested in New York city for disturbing the peace, was asked if he was married. He replied that he was and that he was not. “L live in Ireland,” said he, ‘‘and when Fm there I'm married, and when here I’m single.” That is the Democratic tariff plank. In Pennsylvania it is married; In Kentucky it is single. The New York Sun is enthusiastically devoted to Cleveland. In answering a correspondent, who asks whether Mr. Cleveland is qualified for the office of President, the Sun ■ays: "He does not possess the talent, the breadth or activity of mind, the penetrating intellect, the knowledge, or the experience of affairs which are requisite in filling up the category of a high order of qualifications.” And in speaking of Mr. Hendricks, the Sun ■ays: "If he led the instead of figuring in the second place, there would be glory in the campaign." The Sun shines for all, but its hottest and most scorching rays seem reserved for Grover Cleveland. The agents of the Anchor line of ocean steamships may yet be taught a lesson for their insolence in allowing one of their vessels to make sail from a government tender that had drawn up alongside to reship pauper pasjengers ordered back by the authorities. It

would be about the proper thing to hold the next incoming steamer of that line for about three days at lower quarantine while a rigid examination is made of the character of passengers about to be landed. The speech of Major Calkins, at Richmond, last night, and which we give in full this morning, will repay careful perusal. Its apparent length should not cause any voter in the State to fail to read it carefully, and to consider well the arguments he presents in behalf of the Republican party and its principles. There are some passages of special strength in the address, particularly that in which he sums up the records and the purposes of the two parties, and the one addressed to the young men of the State. Its discussion of the tariff question is thorough and plain, emphasized with facts and figures, and illustrated with homely examples that will enforce its lesson upon every mind. This division of the speech seems to have been prepared with particular reference to the agricultural and the working classes, and we urge upon the farmers and workingmen of Indiana studious attention to the words of Mr. Calkins. Mr. Calkins is quite felicitous and strong in his contrast of the platforms of the two parties—the Democratic platform, which talks with a double tongue and with uncertainty through each, while the Republican platform is so plain, direct and straightforward as to meet the understanding of the simplest and to challenge the confidence of aU classes. The speech of Major Calkins may be regarded as, in some respects, the formal opening of the speaking campaign, and from this time forward the voice of the campaign orator will be heard in the land, although the heaviest part of the engagement will be postponed until a somewhat later date. But from now out Republican principles should be preached everywhere—in neighborhood talks, in the shops and factories, in the school-houses, and wherever two, or three, or more voters may be gathered together. Republicanism has nothing to lose and everything to gain by the amplest and freest discussion.

AMONG the Democratic papers that have either bolted the nomination of Cleveland or have regarded it with marked disapproval may be mentioned the New York Sun, New York Star, the Irish World, Buffalo Times, Hartford Telegram, the Freeman’s Journal, the Irish Nation, Albany Times, Troy Press, Albany Catholic Telegraph, Rochester Union and Advertiser, the adverse opinions of which have been supplemented by similar expressions from conspicuous leaders like Senator Lamar, Governor Stockley, of Delaware; ex-Mayor Pish, of Rochester; William Purcell, John Kelly, John F. Henry, president of the Anti-monopoly Association, and others. As an idea of the attitude of the Irish and Catholic press, it may be shown that, in addition to those named in the foregoing list, the following are hostile to Cleveland: The Tablet, Weekly Union and United Irishman, of New York; the Catholic Herald, of Boston; the Catholic Universe, of Cleveland; the Celt and Citizen, of Cincinnati; the Chicago Citizen; the Rocky Mountain Celt, of Denver; the American Celt, of St. Louis, each and all of which now support Blaine. The Catholic Review, of Brooklyn; the Catholic Union, of Buffalo; the Catholic Mirror, of Baltimore, and the Northwestern Chronicle, of St. Paul, refuse to support Cleveland and give a quasi-support to Blaine. The only Irish-American Catholic journals that heartily support the Democratic nominee are the Republic, of Boston; the Lush-American, of New York, and the Connecticut Catholic. The defection of some half dozen New York Republican editors seems more than offset here, and the best of it is, the constituency of the Irish press is undoubtedly in sympathy with it in following the man “with the American instinct.” In speaking of the necessity of bank reform in yesterday’s Journal, there was no shadow of intention to reflect upon the standing of the private banks now doing business in this city. On the contrary, the Journal has freely expressed the opinion, which it has pleasure to repeat, that they are amongst the soundest, and safest, and best conducted financial institutions in the country—a statement borne out by the experiences through which they have successfully passed, and managed as they have been and are, will survive all laws that may be enacted for the protection of the public. Our purpose was simply to speak of needed reforms in the State bank law for the regulation of private banks of deposit, which sort of banks there must be and always will be, for the necessary conduct of business. There have been disastrous failures of national . banks—not here but elsewhere—which show that the law will not do everything; but, still, there should he strong laws for the regulation of banking, and that is what the Journal desired to urge and to call public attention to, in view of the approaching session of the State Legislature. We very well understand that no statutes wiU take the place of sagacity and integrity, which are fundamental qualifications in bankers; but there should be, and must be, a law that will afford the amplest protection to depositors, and by this means induce and maintain the fullest public confidence, and thereby aid legitimate business in aU directions. Mr. C. W. McCune, president of the Buffalo Courier Company, writes to a friend that the story published over Rev. Mr. Ball’s signature, involving Grover Cleveland’s moral character, is absolutely false, “and will be met in due time.'' Mr. McCune says Mr. Cleveland “is a

man whose social or public life has never been marred to prevent his associating with and having the confidence of the best people of Buffalo.” We are glad to give publicity to Mi-. McCune’s denial, but it would appear that the “due time” in which to meet the story is just about now, and that many more beside Rev. Mi-. Ball have made themselves responsible for its truth. In an interview with Mr. Hendricks at Saratoga we find the following: “I see there is an attempt in some quarters to attack your war record.” “They are at liberty to examine that all they desire. While in the United States Senate, during the war, I always voted for all necessary supplies to our armies in the field. I was also strongly in favor, as the record shows, of encouraging enlistments,” etc. In Mr. Hendricks's Shelbyville speech, reprinted in the Journal of yesterday, there is this expression: “I know that in some of your neighborhoods you are exasperated by seeing young men who have taken French leave from the army taken back. They should not have done so. Before volunteering they should have thought well of the matter. At that time I did not advise anybody to enlist, because I was not going myself, and I would not recommend any one to do a thing I would not do myself.” Oh, yes; Mr. Hendricks was “strongly in favor of encouraging enlistments.” Hasn’t Mr. Hendricks eaten dirt enough for the Democratic party without now disgusting and nauseating the country with a contemptible effort to crawl up on the war platform? Is he jealous of the unique position occupied by Dan Voorhees as “the soldiers’ friend?” Mr. Randolph Tucker, the eminent Virginia Democrat, opened the campaign for the Bourbons in Staunton, the other day. In the course of his speech he said: “When I remember how, in 1876, Blainerushed down the aisle in Congress, hurling anathemas at the Southern people, his whole aspect filled with acrimonious hate of them and of their honored leader, Jefferson Davis, I wonder at the impudence which enables him now to come whining with an expression of regret that he had to allude to the Southern States as a separate section.” No act of Mr. Blaine’s career does him more honor and credit than when he charged down the aisle of the Confederate House of Representatives, temporarily sitting in Washington, and, like a plumed knight, hurled his shining lance full in the face of treason, and prevented the passage of a bill to place the name of Jefferson Davis, “the honored leader of the Southern people,” upon the pension rolls of the government, beside the loyal, patiiotic men who gave their health and manhood to preserve the government.

It is a curious fact that there isn’t a wax match factory in this country. All such matches used here are imported from England, France, or Italy. An English company is the oldest match factory in the world, having been started more than fifty years ago. There is a duty of 60 per cent, on these matches to “protect” home manufacture which doesn’t exist. —Evening News. There is not 60 per cent, duty on wax matches; the duty is but 35 per cent. But, suppose it was 60; who does it hurt, according to the News’s own statement? There are no “monopolies” here to be enriched from the duty, and certainly poor men do not use wax matches to any alarming extent. They are purely a luxury, and the duties strictly are for revenue. But it is not 60 per cent., and is not protective. Mr. Randolph Tucker, in his first speech in the Virginia campaign, speaks of Jefferson Davis as “the honored leader” of the Southern people, and arraigns Mr. Blaine because he prevented the passage of a bill that would have placed the name of the arch traitor on the pension rolls of the govern ment. The national Republican committee should employ Mr. Tucker to stump the Northern States. The Bradford glass works strikers who put out the eyes of the new foreman, so as to prevent him from working, doubtless imagined they were vindicating the rights of labor. The scoundrels who engaged in the fiendish outrage should be hunted down and put into the penitentiary for lif-e. That would be a vindication of the rights of labor that would amount to something. Hon. John F. Scanlan, of . Chicago, secretary of the Western Industrial League of America, who is to address the workingmen of this city in the Circuit Court room, on next Wednesday evening, at 8 o’clock, on the question of tariff, has a national reputation on that question. Our citizens, especially the laboring men, should make it a point to be present and hear him. The Rev. George W. Pepper, who is out so strong for Blaine and Logan, was once arrested in his native town in Ireland for declaring that “we had women in the United States—mothers, wives and daughters of our soldiers—who were all the equal of Victoria, and many of them as far superior to the Queen of England as the heavens were higher than the earth.” H. H. Woodruff, of Glen Easton, W. Va., is the wickedest man yet discovered. In April last he ran away, leaving his wife to settle up his business at seventy-five cents on the dollar. Last Saturday he returned, and about the time the neighbors concluded that his escapade was but an easy way to effect a settlement, 1 he hied himself away again, this time with his wife’s beautiful sister. The stockholders in the Keely-motor confidence game are again wrought up, this being the eighteenth semi-annual grand “wrought,” and want to know, ye know, when the thing is going to be done. With audacity, the result of years of waiting, they demand that Mr. Keely shall again set a day when the machine will be perfected, as if he hadn’t already set a day—several such days, in fact. What, in the name of common sense, do they expect of the poor Mr. Keely? And why don’t they give him time to adjust the vibrator and polish the diaphragm

of the motor? The next thing these impatient and unreasonable creatures will do will be to ask the Democratic party to write a platform that is comprehensible and that means the same thing in Pittsburg as in the Louisville CourierJournal office, fifth floor. If Mr. Keely has lost none of his cunning, he will put a stop to this clamor by ordering anew assessment on the stock. Pearl Eytinge, mindful of the coming amusement season, trots out a little domestic scandal of here and modestly asks that it be given a generous but gratuitous circulation. The morceau is to the effect that in■lßßl she married Dr. Joseph Watkins Yard. Ten months later she was unmarried from Dr. Joseph Watkins Yard, as his parents made life very unpleasant for her. Last January Dr. Joseph Watkins Yard again proposed to Pearl, and she again accepted and married Dr. Joseph Watkins Yard; and now she goes to the trouble to publish the fact, ingenuously explaining that Dr. Joseph Watkins Yard is about to marry another woman, living in Yonkers. Mrs. Pearl Yard does this “to save Dr. Joseph Watkins Yard from the penitentiary and to protect the other woman." Her anxiety fer the welfare of “the other woman” is extraordinary. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pearl Yard will receive the amount of free advertising she craves and her prospects will brighten. Eastern papers please copy. The New York Evening Post apologizes for the Democratic selection of Barnum as chairman with the plea that “you must fight the devil with fire.” This puts the Post, which claims to stand on a plane between the two parties, in an unfortunate predicament. It is just as dangerous to stand between the devil and fire as between that functionary and the deep sea. The labors of the committee engaged in the revision of the Bible are now ended, and the manuscript of the Old Testament is in the printer’s hands. It will not be ready for general distribution before November, which is probably just as well, seeing that the people of this country will not have much time to devote to it before that date. A prayer hospital for the reception and benefit of citizens given up to die by the physicians has been opened in Erie. Why don’t they admit the afflicted persons in the early stages of their respective diseases? The latter plan would naturally result in much less wear and tear of the people who make the prayers, and ought to be equally effective. Cleveland denies that his letter of acceptance was in course of preparation before he was officially notified of his nomination, and says he has not committed his thoughts to paper yet. This delay must be because he hasn’t very many thoughts, and be hates to see them get away. * A black bear at Nestor, Mich., killed and carried off a woman engaged in picking berries. —Ex. An angry Providence made a mistake that time, and probably mistook the woman for the man who makes the thimble cases called berry baskets. A Philadelphia manufacturer of “Scotch” snuff says every process connected with the business is a secret and all employes are enjoined to silence. This secrecy of course accounts for the well-known fact that comparatively few persons are “up to snuff.” The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is informed by an eminent physician of that city that the cholera never penetrated the pine regions of the South. The cholera doesn't generally go into business in a region where it would have to travel four miles between victims. Let’s be fair and publish a full list of the “independent” Republicans as they are discovered. Ed Stokes, the assassin of Jim Fisk, is the latest recruit for Cleveland. Joaie Mansfield has not yet been heard from. Mr. Gossard, of Clear Springs, Md., has named his last baby “Cleveland.” This singular grudge against an innocent infant is explained when it is learned that he is Mr. Gosssard’s twenty-fifth son.

Gov. Cleveland has been elected an honorary member of the Bachelors’ Protective Union of Winnsborough, S. C. It doesn’t seem as though this was just the direction in which protection was needed. Lee Lino, Chinese laundryman, has taken out naturalization papers, and will support the Democratic ticket. Lee Ling is wise. He lives in Texas. Grover Cleveland is the man of destiny of our day and generation.—Albany Argus. He is destined to have a serious time refuting the sworn testimony of Buffalo pretehers. Lord Shrewsbury’s line of cabs bear the letters S. T. on the panels. The ‘‘lß6o—X” is generally on the inside, about 2 am. A double-tongued child has been found in Troy, N. Y. It is of the sex that generally has the last word. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. John McNamara, a leading Irish-American, of Richland county, 0., has forsaken the Democracy as a forlorn hope and come out for Blaine and Logan and protection of American industries. Chicago News (Ind. Dem,): There seems to be no doubt that the Irish are irreconcilably hostile to Cleveland. Nearly all the Irish papers in the country are opposing him, and from every locality come reports that the Irish societies are pledged to work and vote against him. New York Star: Politics makes strange bedfellows. It is a singular as well as edifying spectacle to see George Jones and George William Curtis working shoulder to shoulder with such eminent punsts as Tim Campbell, Mike Norton, Patty Walsh and Mother Mandelbaum, in the glorious cause of reform. That speech of Mr. Hendricks denouncing the act authorizing the enlistment of colored men must interest Colonel Higglnson, who wag the commander of the first regiment of colored troops. In that same speech Mr. Hendricks denounced Mr. Lincoln for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and for making it an Abolition war. Philadelphia Press: All the Democratic papers are printing that interview with Thomas Hendricks, wherein he tells how fond he was of Lincoln. They omit all mention of the trifling circumstance that in 1864 he hotly opposed Mr. Lincoln, and went before the country demanding his defeat, on a platform which condemned the war as a failure. The Washington correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle has authority from an intimate personal friend of ex-Senator Conkling, who conversed with him on Sunday, to state that Mr. Conking will be heard in the oamRand that, besides speaking in New York, i promised to speak in Onio and Indiana for Blaine and Logan. Theodore Roosevelt said at St Paul, on Wednesday: "It always has been my luck in polities, and I suppose always will be, to offend some wing of the party, generally the machine,

but sometimes the independents. I should think little of myself should I permit the independents to dictate to me any more than the machine. As to whether I shall run for office this fall, I cannot say." Milwaukee Sentinel: The Boston Advertiser excuses Mr. Roosevelt for supporting Blaine, because he “remained in the convention without protest until the end.” So did George William Curtis. Senator Miller, of California, says that the Republicans of his State, though confident of success, will make an active and vigorous canvass, and that the young men particularly are full of ardor. That is the right model for every State. A campaign in which confidence of victory inspires a determination to make the victory overwhelming, and which especially enlists the zeal and activity of young voters, will amply justify itself in November. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: It would have been difficult for the Democrats party to have found a man anywhere with a worse record than Hendricks. Republicans ought to cut out the outline’ of it, as printed in yesterday's Commercial Gazette, and put it in their pockets. He was at the outset a secessionist; he was a disunionist; he was for letting the South go, and then for carving up the remainder into two confederacies, and finally, he was for peace at any price. Finally he rounded off his life at Washington by backing up official thieves who robbed the public treasury. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. In Washington it is considered probable that Lieutenant Greely will next winter be given a place in the Signal Service, with the rank of major or colonel. There is a movement in St. Louis to celebrate the discovery of America. It has been predicted for some years that the news of the discovery of America would at length reach St. Louis. A San Francisco woman is suing a man for $lO,000 damages, because, on the 21st of last month he promised to marry her within “a reasonable time,” and has not yet fulfilled the agreement. “Ben" Wade’s old home, at Jefferson, 0., is still occupied by his venerable widow and one of his sons, Captain Henry P. Wade. The famous senator's little office, near by, contains all his books and papers, undisturbed. A man in Denver is the happy possessor of the pipe and tobacco pouch of the once famous Ute chief Ouray. The wooden stem seems to have been made from the spoke of a wagon, captured, probably, from some whites. It is two feet long and of hickory. A LADY residing on Arch street, Allegheny, has not been out of bed for twenty-seven years, nor raised to a sitting position. She is afflicted with a spinal disease, and has passed through a number of trying operations. She is cheerful in the midst of her affliction, and no word of complaint ever passes her lips. Mr. Tilden is spending a very quiet summer at Greystone. His health has improved perceptibly, and he makes daily trips over his estate, superintending various improvements that he is making. He is much interested in the alterations being made in the Viking, preparing her for a southern trip during the coming winter. WHEN Dickens was employed by Warren, the blacking maker, it was part of his duty to write poetical and other advertisements. Here is one of the novelist's early productions: “I pitied the dove, for my bosom was tender, I pitied the sigh that she gave to the wind; But I ne’er shall forget the superlative splendor Os Warren’s jet blacking, the pride of mankind.” The remarkable suit against the Duke of Brunswick, now in court at Wotzlar, and which was begun in 1604, involves a claim, set up by the Counts of Stolberg against the administrators of the Ducal Private Domain, for the restitution of certain estates, forests, and mines in the Hartz Mountains. The property is valued at nearly $5,000,000. After the suit was first begun it was carried on continuously for half a century. In the German Empire seventeen years ago there were 300 towns, with populations of between 5,000 and 20,000, which were without railway accommodations. In the year 1880 the number of such towns was only 132. Os towns having populations of between 2,000 and 5.000 there are in the empire 1,975, of which only 468 had any railway accommodation seventeen years ago. By 1880 the number of towns so provided had risen to 932. A MAN living on the outskirts of Boston was recently complained of by the Board of Health for maintaining a nuisance in the shape of a piggery. It so happens that the Everett town line runs through the man's ground, and, taking advantage of the fact, the man has, by moving his offensive establishment a few feet, put his swine colony beyond the jurisdiction of the Boston officials. A farm so located ought to command an exceptional price in the real estate market This time it is the wild “woman,” and not a man. She has been discovered in lowa, near Dubuque, by hunters, supplied, in ail probability, with pocket flasks. They got a “square" look at her. She has. as a matter of course, all the accessories of the “wild man,” the unearthly scream, the wild glare and unnatural luster of the eye, the jet black hair hanging in disheveled locks over the shoulders, no clothes to speak of, and all that sort of thing. The accounts omit to state whether the hunters had much of a headache after their experience. Miss Virginia Preston Carrington, of Virginia, has a scrap-book containing a large collection of antique relics, consisting of letters and autographs. Among them are letters from Washington Irving, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Thomas H. Benton, Patrick Henry and Sarah Henry, his mother, together with a great number of others. It has been stated, and doubtless believed, until recently refuted, that the family of Patrick Henry was exceedingly illiterate, unable to read or write. This scrap-book shows that the mother of the distinguished orator wrote a splendid letter, in a fine, bold hand.

“That Mme. Loyson has always been a help and never a hindrance to her honored husband,” writes a Boston Transcript correspondent, “is beyond dispute. She has assisted him in various ways, and for some time in Paris let all of her rooms which she could possibly spare to stranger tenants, that she might in that way increase their own limited finances. Mme. Loysen is charged with ‘extravagance.’ Pew women are farther from that fault than the wife of Pere Hyacinthe. lam very sure that her life-lohg stock of ‘Worth’s’ gorWis have never decreased the home comforts, interfered in any way with the good works of either, or materially lessened their family exchequer.” A oat endowed with extraordinary animal instinct is reported from Ulster county, New York. She feeds her little family of three kittens on fish, which she catches in a pond near by, and enforces a degree of decorum in the table manners of her offspring that is truly remarkable, When she comes in with a meal she will not permit any miscellaneous scrambling after it, by which one kitten might get more of the ilinner than its mate; but she lays the morsel, fish or bird, as may be, before one of the young ones. The other two she obliges to remain quietly at a distance while the one is eating, enforcing her authority against any protest on their part by frequent cufliugs. When the kitten has eaten one-third of the meal the old cat removes the dinner and places it in front of another kitten, who eats its third of*the meal unmolested, when the third kitten’s turn comes. The kitten that is served first on one day becomes tho last on the list the next day, and that rotation is maintained with unvarying partiality day after day. The Central Committee. Chicago News. Col. John C. New remains at the head of tho Republican State Central Committee in Indiana. There has been a strong opposition to him in certain quarters, but it is apparent that this hostility results purely from personal motives. New certainly cau pull tho Republican party through in Indiana if anybody can. He was largely instrumental in securing Republican success in that Stato four years ago, and it is presumed he has not forgotten the methods which prevailed at that time. The few Republican papers in Indiana that are antagonizing Now at present seem to forget that it is the Democratic party and not John C. New whom all good Republicans are expected to combat this year.

THE INDIANA STATE PRESS. The Democratic Annex Doesn’t Go—A Land* Slide Among Workingmen and Irishmen. _ ni , A Land-Slide. Evansville Journal. That there is to be a “land-sliae,” as the phrase runs, amougst workingmen, in favor of Blaine and Logan, is becoming more and more apparent day by day. The principle of protection to American industry, so imbedded in the Republican platform, and which is so heartily indorsed by our candidates, appeals to the hearts and interests of workingmen in the strongest terms. So much is this the case that even in the South, which has been heretofore solidly Democratic! there are strong evidences that the Republican doctrine is taking root It is altogether probable that Blaine and Logan will get electoral votes in that portion of the country upon the question of protection to the manufacturing interests that are becoming so important there. Wasting Valuable Time. South Bend Tribune. Mr. Curtis ought to, at his age, be philosopher enough to understand that life is too short to devote any time to explaining or defending political or social scandals. The more such things are defended, the more that attempts are made to explain them away or apologize for them, the worse it is for the victim. Mr. Curtis should not waste his valuable time in this way. Let him devote it to securing the election of Cleveland. That is what he flopped for. The publie has no interest and cares little for Mr. Curtis or his peccadillos. Nothing So Absurd Since Greeley. Loganßport Journal. There has been nothing in politics since the Greeley campaign so absurd as the present combination which supports Cleveland. The spectacle then presented by the Democrats who supported Greeley and claimed that he was reallr very much a Democrat at heart and always had been, was similar in its ludicrous phases to that now presented by a Republican who supports Cleveland on the ground that his election would promote Republican principles. A Measure of Worth. Martinsville Republican. Blaine is honored and esteemed most by thoss who know him best, while Cleveland's greatest enemies aro among those most intimately acquainted with him. In all business relations and transactions this is accepted as a never failing test of character, and there is nothing in politics to change the measure of worth applied to men in private and public. A Demoralizing Stampede. Warsaw Times. The Democratic party is perfectly dazed at the desertion of the Irish people. They have so steadily relied on the Irish voters to help them elect almost any one they might put up for office, that they stand aghast at the stampede now taking place among our Irish-American citizens, to Blaine and Logan. Dubious Thomas. South Bend Register. The man who was uncertain which side of tho war question he was on in 1864 has been known as a straddler ever since. A man without a principle of his own is specially qualified to be the candidate of a party which expects to succeed as some thieves do under the influence of a false alarm. The Buffalo Clergy. Muncie Times. Avery effective bombardment has been begun during the past week by the clergy of the country upon the moral position of Cleveland. Thin crusade is led by the church people of N. Y., Cleveland’s home, and threatens to crystallize his defeat early in the campaign. The Democratic Dark Horse. Winchester Herald. It is an open insult to the American people thus to continue the candidacy of Mr. Cleveland with this dark cloud hanging over him. He is a species of “dark-horse" candidate that cannot be tolerated by any people who believe in God and reverence virtue. At the Instance of Democratic Leaders. Huntington Herald. This paper has always upheld temperance, and has done what it could to advance the cause* but it cannot, nor will it indorse such movements as were attempted by Mr. Shiel at the instance of the Democratic leaders of the State.

Don’t Want to Hurt Anybody’s Feelings. Corydon Republican. The Republican State convention declared in favor of an appropriation for the erection of a monument to commemorate the deeds of Indiana soldiers in the war to save the Union. Tho Democratic platform is silent on the subject Monumental Asses. Delphi Journal. The little side show of so-called “temperanc# men,’’ who are running an attachment to tho Democratic party of Indiana, are making monumental asses of themselves. The better classes all unite in disapproval of their action. Me Toe. People’* Paper. Cleveland and Me Toe are not cutting much of a figure in this county. The Irish vote will bo very light, on account of the sympathy extended the head and toe of the ticket by the British press and their Democratic allies. Too Serious to Ignore. Columbus Republican. The charges against Cleveland are too serious to ignore. If he is guilty the people want no such man for President If lie is innocent, let him establish that fact and the publication of tho slander will be a benefit to him. The Maligners of Garfield. Illinois State Journal. A party which Discarded dead-walls with “329,” and circulated sac-similes of the Morey letter forgery, in 1880, is hardly in a position to plead against the introduction of scandals into the campaign in 1884. A Fraud and a Failure. Cambridge City Tribune. The Shiel prohibition scheme is a failure in this locality. The people of old Wayne are a consistent people, and are not to be caught by tho chaff of such frauds as Luther Benson ana others of his stripe. Not an Available Argument. Terre Haute Express. We haven't seon any Democratic nowspapei appealing to the record made by the Democrat!! House last winter as an argument in favor o! giving that party control of all branches of tht government “Copperheads and Traitors.'* BhelbyviUe Republican. Well it is rather tough on a Democrat, even one with tho most hardened conscience, to b( called on to vote for Gray after his denouncing the whole party as “copperheads” and “traitors.* Generally Understood. South llend Register. Henry Ward Beecher’s sympathy for Clove land is based—or rather has its origin in—tha is, it is quite generally understood. Spilt Milk. Stouben Republican. It is pretty safe to assert that Grover Cleve land would not bo the nominee if the work of th< convention could be done again. It Pleased Mr. Hendricks. Vernon Banner. . Thomas A. Hendricks expresses great joj over the prohibition ticket Ed. Shiel's convention nominated last week. Not for tho Tried and Trne. Columbus Republican. Verv few of the real tried and true temper ance men of the State indorse Shiel’s Porno cratic side show. • The Shiel Ticket. Winchester Herald. If potent in any thing at all, it will be in roll ing back the progress of temperance sentimen in the Stato. Cleveland Can Stand on the Platform. Albion New Era. The Democracy do not condemn polygamy ii their platform. ■